1967
Psychiatric Emenrgency Service
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“…The over-representation of males in the present study has not been noted in previous North American surveys (1). Most other surveys of psychiatric emergencies find an equal sex distribution or predominance of female patients (2,10,11,17).…”
Section: Commentsmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…The over-representation of males in the present study has not been noted in previous North American surveys (1). Most other surveys of psychiatric emergencies find an equal sex distribution or predominance of female patients (2,10,11,17).…”
Section: Commentsmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Epidemiologic studies (10)(11)(12) suggest that the prevalence of organic illness among psychiatric emergency room patients is substantial. Muller(10), in a review of five psychiatric emergency services across the country, found that seven percent of psychiatric emergency room patients (n = 4841) have organic brain syndromes (OBSs).…”
Section: Organic Illness Among Patients Seen In Psychiatric Emergencymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The small proportion of geriatric psychiatric emergency‐service patients has also made it difficult to understand their special psychosocial and psychiatric treatment needs. Although demographic, admission, and clinical studies of psychiatric emergency‐service admissions are available, 1–3 , 6–8 they do not provide comparative breakdowns by age and thus represent primarily the predominantly 20–40‐year‐old section of the study population. Consequently, there is very little information about the characteristics, treatments, and outcomes for geriatric psychiatric service admissions.…”
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confidence: 99%
